is_required indicates that the tag is part of the set of required tags for the site. This is great, but leads to problems when trying to indicate this using the data returned from the /questions route. The only data returned by this route is the tag name. Currently there is no method to fetch additional data for a specific tag.

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So... no, I'm status-declined-ing this. Fetching that sort of data for each tag on each question becomes unpleasantly slow when you're dealing with batches of questions (which most request are).

However, you are correct that there's no good way to grab additional data about a tag given just it's name. I've added the /tags/{tags}/info method to alleviate this.

For the specific "mimic the site styling" cases, I've added /tags/required and /tags/moderator-only. I suggest fetching and caching the result for quite a while (a day or even longer) since we rarely add or change either moderator or required tags.

How does the /tags/{tags}/info method differ from the /tags with inname? Also why not just /tags/{tags} (not that I mind just should this method be used differently to others?)
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Jonathan.Feb 3 '12 at 21:49